The presence of Mn and Cu promotes thick film formation. In austenitic stainless steels where generally a transgranular mode of SCC failure is observed, the addition of more active Mn and more noble Cu results in an intergranular mode of SCC.
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Devasenapathi et al. (1995) studied this question.
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